SilenceFor the tongue, the lips, the mouth,the throat.Silence.For the shadow in time’s courts, the face,the bright one.Silence.For the stone, the stem, the stream,the branch.Silence.For the wound. For the blood of the wound,for the eye.Silence.For the bone, the fall the whitemoon-gifts.Silence.For you. Silence. For time. Silence.It burns.